SYS-CON announces the Call for Papers for the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), to be held October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. Submissions are welcomed from exceptional speakers who are also Infrastructure, architecture, and software engineering experts who have first-hand experience in the development, procurement or implementation of IT for Government or Federal agencies.
I already listened to a couple of talks on the cloud. The whole cloud topic start to grow up, meaning more and more application scenarios for the cloud are appearing.
Cloudera, the eight-month-old commercial Hadoop start-up that raised a $5 million first round last year, has gotten a $6 million B round it says it doesn’t need, led by Greylock with Accel Partners, an existing backer, kicking in. Greylock gets a board seat.
Sun talked up its promised new Apple-beholden Java Store at JavaOne. It said a private beta was underway and would open to all U.S.-based Java users later this year. It also said that developers can begin submitting Java SE- and JavaFX-based applications to a Java Warehouse for distribution in the Java Store.
The majority of information delivery approaches fail to meet two core requirements of success, scaling while adding features and adapting to changing requirements. Learn about an Enterprise Reporting Application Platform that meets the business reporting and analysis needs of any user in an organization, any partner and any customer outside the firewall, within the context of a business-specific application experience. To learn more download this White Paper by Actuate now!
In a major upgrade to its software as a service (SaaS) that connects companies with their field workforces, Argentina's Movimiento ATM has integrated the Perst Lite Java embedded database from McObject® in client software for roaming employees' BlackBerry, Nokia and other popular smartphones.
JavaOne 2009 officially started with the opening Keynote delivered by Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. The keynote included several announcements and demos presented by partners and customers of Sun. Here are some highlights...
Sun Microsystems has announced the latest release of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, delivering industry leading features in networking, storage and virtualization, along with significant performance enhancements and developer productivity updates. Central to the new release is the inclusion of Project Crossbow, a networking technology development.
Software testing while one of the most important tasks done in a development project is often misunderstood and abused by everyone from programmers and managers to testers. Wikipedia calls testing “an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under testing, with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate.”
Sun means to go into the cloud building business Monday. It’s supposed to announce a new portfolio of professional services aimed at businesses of all sizes called the Cloud Strategic Planning Service at the CommunityOne West conference in San Francisco
The influence of open source continues to expand across software markets. As open source becomes increasing ubiquitous, new patterns are emerging that will have a profound effect on adopter IT strategies and on the model itself. This white paper from Actuate will look at how open source is evolving the software industry in numerous ways.
Xandros today announced that key staff will present a birds-of-a-feather session on using standard Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technologies to maximize maintainability on Application Stores projects at the Sun JavaOne conference, Moscone Center, San Francisco, June 2, 2009. With the explosion of new mobile computing platforms, from smartphones to netbooks to e-book readers, an application store is no longer optional. It is a key contributor to the success of a platform.
Sun's Project Vector, which will be launched at JavaOne this week as the Java Store, is a network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world. According to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz it "has the potential to deliver the world's largest audience to developers and businesses leveraging Java and JavaFX."
Tel Aviv based start-up justAd.TV today announced the successful interoperability of the justAd.TV STB Agent with the Sun Java Media Client software. This interoperability allows TV providers to easily insert embedAds(TM), justAd.TV's wide variety of new ad formats, into non-linear TV viewer experiences such as VOD and PVR, without requiring changes or upgrades to the video delivery network.
Dennis Reedy will do a joint-presentation with one of our customers, Ronald Bowers, working for the Army Research Lab, during JavaOne 09. This BoF is schedule on Wednesday, June, 3rd at 7:45pm. Here is the abstract of the session called Cloud Computing and NetBeans™ IDE Enable Army Research Lab’s Next-Generation Simulation System. This presentation provides an overview of how the [...]
Teradata Corporation has announced the Teradata Developer Exchange, a web site which supports a thriving and dynamic online data warehouse development community. It connects Teradata engineers, customers, partners and academics who are building and deploying solutions based on the market-leading Teradata platforms and database.
An enterprise service bus (ESB) forms the backbone of SOA deployments and is the efficient successor to point-to-point architectures. Selecting the ESB for a SOA project is an important part of the planning stage. With an increased shift toward lean and agile software development, businesses are looking for improved time-to-market and efficiency at reduced costs.
This white paper sheds light on the various architectural components of UniPortal. It is an application portal that provides an SOI-compliant command-line interface (CLI) or web services interface (WS-I), facilitating application-oriented job submission, monitoring and control to multiple clusters as well as multiple schedulers.
With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, SYS-CON.TV recently invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the economics of the Web to Enterprise IT and where the move to the cloud will take the industry overall. The participants are Amazon.com VP & CTO, Werner Vogels; Rackspace CTO, John Engates; Booz Allen Hamilton Principal, Rod Fontecilla; and Sun's CTO of Global Sales & Services, Hal Stern.
Watch this one-hour webcast from ILOG and discover the importance of visualization and how it can be implemented in web applications with a combination of open source and commercial technologies. Data visualization driven through AJAX Push allows you to make better business decisions in a real-time connected enterprise.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Christopher Ferris, Distinguished Engineer of IBM, will be presenting at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East (www.soaworld2009.com) June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. His session will be entitled "WS-I Profiles: Delivering Secure AND Interoperable Web Services." Chris Ferris is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Industry Standards in the Software Group Standards Strategy organization. He has been actively engaged in open standards development for XML and Web
Before Sun’s current management leaves the building, it’s going to open an iPhone-like Java Store where Sun-vetted third-party apps can be sold or traded. Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, back blogging again now that the company’s been sold, calls the scheme Project Vector and imagines developers eventually bidding for position and Sun charging for distribution and delivery direct to the desktop. (JavaFX bypasses potentially hostile browsers.)
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe, held on May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic, is the first major cloud event in Europe and is co-located with SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference Europe 2009. The next event is the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, CA, November 2-4, 2009, co-located with the the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
Even with these impressive first stats, Ulitzer users for the next 12 to 24 months will only be a fraction of the early adopters of tomorrow's social media tools. Ulitzer offers quality content under a managed environment. Google News keyword alerts are already contaminated with meaningless garbage largely due to its automated nature. Instant access to quality content will get more difficult as this erosion escalates. Sites such as Ulitzer will be the only answer to one-stop access to quality content on any subject.
The end of the year is an opportunity to review the past year’s activity, and to present this to our Executive Committee (EC) members, to our broader membership, and to the general public. So this month I will summarize our progress during the past year. First, in addition to the ongoing work of moving JSRs through the process (more on this later), the JCP engaged in a couple of new initiatives around transparency and agility.